Watched this for the obvious reason, can’t resist anything with a good gender swap lol. The tagline to this movie (according to the IMDb) read: “The sexual transformation of a man into a woman will actually take place before your very eyes!” which led me to expect something a lot more trashy than what I got. The whole thing is told surprisingly straight – straighter than any other Hammer movie I’ve seen, I think, in fact. The first transformation, when it finally occurs, is fairly mesmerising without being as graphic (pity :-P) as I’d expected, and the subsequent ones are pretty interesting too (like the homage to the classic version of the story with Fredric March, done in a mirror). I like the integration of the Jack the Ripper murders, and the ending is pretty out there too. I’m not sure if I’d bother with it again, but it’s worth watching and better than I expected, I’m still waiting for the movie gender transformation to end all movie gender transformations though

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